Yalamanchili defeats incumbent DA Gonzalez in the Western Judicial Circuit

Voters in Athens-Clarke and Oconee counties selected former assistant district attorney Kalki Yalamanchili to be the Western Judicial Circuit’s next District Attorney.

He easily defeated the highly controversial one-term incumbent Deborah Gonzalez by a 20 percent margin capturing 60 percent of the vote to Gonzalez’s 40 percent.